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Koine Greek wordlink #87608

SR GNT Acts 8:1 διεσπάρησαν (diesparaʸsan) ‘Hierousalaʸm/(Yərūshālayim) all and were dispersed throughout the regions’ Strongs=12890 Lemma=diaspeirō
Word role=verb mood=indicative tense=aorist voice=passive person=3rd number=plural
Year=34 AD Event=Saul_persecutes_the_church TimeSeries=Saul_persecutes_the_church

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Only use of identical word form διεσπάρησαν (V-IAP3··P) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘διεσπάρησαν’ (V-IAP3··P) is always and only glossed as ‘were dispersed’.

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘diaspeirō’ have 2 different glosses: ‘having_been dispersed’, ‘were dispersed’.

Greek words (3) other than διεσπάρησαν (V-IAP3··P) with a gloss related to ‘dispersed’

ACTs 5:36 διελύθησαν (dieluthaʸsan) V-IAP3··P Lemma=dialuō ‘as_many_as were_being persuaded by him were dispersed and became to’ SR GNT Acts 5:36 word 39

OET-LV: 36 For/Because before these the days Theudas rose _up, saying himself to _be someone, to _whom was _joined _up of _men a_number of_ about _four _hundred, who was _killed and all as _many _as were _being _persuaded by _him were _dispersed and became to nothing. (ACT_5:36)

OET-RV: 36 A while back, a man called Theudas became prominent, saying that he was someone important. Eventually about four hundred others joined him, but he was killed and those who’d followed him were dispersed and it all came to nothing. (ACT 5:36)

ACTs 8:4 διασπαρέντες (diasparentes) V-PAP·NMP ‘the ones on_one_hand therefore having_been dispersed passed_through good_message_preaching the’ SR GNT Acts 8:4 word 4

OET-LV: 4 The ones therefore on _one _hand having _been _dispersed, passed _through good _message _preaching the message. (ACT_8:4)

OET-RV: 4 However, now the people who had fled began to proclaim the good message to others in other places. (ACT 8:4)

ACTs 11:19 διασπαρέντες (diasparentes) V-PAP·NMP ‘the ones indeed therefore having_been dispersed by the tribulation’ SR GNT Acts 11:19 word 4

OET-LV: 19 The ones therefore indeed having _been _dispersed by the tribulation which having _become concerning Stefanos, passed _through to Foinikaʸ, and Kupros, and Antioⱪeia, speaking the message to _no _one except not/lest only to _Youdaiōns. (ACT_11:19)

OET-RV: 19 Over time, due to the persecution that began with Stephen’s killing, the ones who had moved away went as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, but they only shared Yeshua’s teaching with other Jews. (ACT 11:19)

Key: V=verb